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Fixing Chromatic Aberrations (That Colored-Edge Fringe)

Chromatic aberrations is a fancy name for that thin line of colored fringe that sometimes appears around the edges in photos. Sometimes the fringe is red, sometimes green, sometimes blue, but all the time it's bad, so we might as well get rid of it. Luckily, Camera Raw has a built-in fix that does a pretty good job.

Step One

Open the RAW photo that has signs of chromatic aberrations (colored-edge fringe), and then press Z to get the Zoom tool in the Camera Raw dialog. Zoom in on an area where the fringe is fairly obvious. In the example shown here, I zoomed directly in on a newspaper in the photo that had a red-edge fringe along one side.

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Step Two

To remove this fringe, click on the Lens tab along the right side of the Camera Raw dialog to bring up the Chromatic Aberration sliders. They're pretty self-explanatory: The top one fixes red or cyan fringe; the bottom fixes blue or yellow fringe.

Tip

Before you begin fixing any chromatic aberrations, you may want to click on the Detail tab and lower the Sharpness amount to 0%, because sharpening can also cause color fringes to appear (and you want to make sure you're curing the right problem).

Step Three

Since the fringe in this particular case is red, move the top Chromatic Aberration slider to the right (toward Cyan), which removes the red fringe.